Gaylords in Port Richmond and the Tioga waterfront

Port Richmond is where the Delaware shoreline in Philadelphia turns industrial. Tioga Marine Terminal is the anchor, a 116-acre facility with six berths that handles wood, steel, containers, palletized and breakbulk cargo. Forest products, steel, warehousing and food processing fill the streets behind it.

Breakbulk and palletized cargo is the kind of freight that arrives in a mix of packaging, and bulk boxes are common among it. Warehouses near the terminal take the freight off the pallets and are left with empties that are rarely in perfect shape, since they have traveled by sea and been forklifted.

The terminal's acreage and berth count come from a Center for American Progress report on a capacity project. We do not know what any particular warehouse behind it handles and do not guess.

The neighborhood lies along Aramingo Avenue and Delaware Avenue, with Interstate 95 close by and Allegheny Avenue as a main cross street. Trucks reach the river wards quickly from the highway.

This page covers 19134, 19125 and 19137. The industries to expect there, from our market research: marine terminals, forest products, steel, warehousing and food processing.

Port traffic follows ship schedules, not the calendar. A big vessel can mean a burst of boxes from one warehouse for a week.

• Buy. Warehouses and processors who want used boxes for outbound freight or for staging.
• Sell. Sea-borne empties: boxes that arrived by ship and have no further use.
• Recycle. Boxes crushed in transit or wet from a leaking container.

Tell us how the freight arrived and how long the boxes have sat. Sea air and a damp warehouse change the grade.

• Berth. A place at a wharf where a vessel ties up; Tioga has six, each handling different cargo.
• Forest products. Lumber, plywood and paper that move through river terminals, loaded by the pallet or the bundle.
• Dunnage. Loose material used to brace cargo in a hold or container, often wood or board, which is not the same as a box.

• The street and the terminal or warehouse, if you can name it.
• How the boxes arrived and how long ago.
• The count and the grade.
• Whether you have a dock that takes a full-size truck.